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If you love poetry, watch for these books coming out in the first half of 2024.

A new book explores the dispossession of Dënesųłıné people during the creation of Wood Buffalo National Park.

“Serious art is born from serious play.” This quote from Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way epitomizes the poems in Dennis Cooley’s latest book, body works, in which he continues to write with a playfulness that has produced a rich oeuvre of poetry spanning the last five decades. Built from the…

Here are the CBC Books picks for the top Canadian poetry of the year!

Of sugar helps the Metformin go down.

Life is made up of endless quantities of fragments that light up our own personal auras like the stars in the night sky. Each star is a shining beacon of what it means to be alive: the people we meet, the joys and sorrows we encounter, the tragedies—not to mention…

The Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) announced the winners of the 2023 Alberta Book Publishing Awards at an awards gala held in conjunction with Alberta Book Publishing Conference in Edmonton on September 21. The shortlists had been announced in June. Darcy Tamayose's Ezra’s Ghosts, published by NeWest Press, won two awards, including trade fiction

Here are the Canadian fiction we are excited about this season.

Justin Bell Writes Bookmarks topped by local author Anna Marie Sewells second book in her trilogy and includes local literary winners.

That first issue ... is side-stapled, 8 ½ x 11 One hundred issues of any journal, literary or otherwise, is a remarkable achievement, and even moreso, one might argue, for one specifically dedicated to poetry. I doubt that any of the original trio of founding co-editors—Christopher Levenson, Tom Henighan or…